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When the size of the group supporting your cause reaches a critical mass,
any legislator or elected official has to pay attention.
- Mark Shields

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention,
during Vietnam there was a chance to serve;
there was a chance not to serve.
- Mark Shields

John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush.
- Mark Shields

Iraq is in a civil war.
There is no road in that country that is safe.
- Mark Shields

When you run for president of the United States,
everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans,
how much they admire them, how grateful they are.
- Mark Shields

George Bush is trying to play it both ways.
- Mark Shields

Let's not pretend that all of a sudden,
this is some new system.
- Mark Shields

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John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign.
- Mark Shields

John McCain was victimized in the South Carolina primary.
- Mark Shields

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.
- Mark Shields

You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N.
or any other place.
- Mark Shields

The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions
is that hospitals are community-based.
You can't outsource your work; you can't move your
emergency department to Pakistan.
- Mark Shields

There is always strength in numbers.
The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause,
the better.
- Mark Shields

The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
- Mark Shields

The important thing to understand about legislators
is that there are dozens of competing interests and issues that occupy them.
They are stretched thin.
- Mark Shields

Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command,
save one, has stood with him.
- Mark Shields

George Bush says what John Kerry did was noble.
Yet he sees him being savaged by his own supporters.
- Mark Shields

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
- Mark Shields

You've got people who didn't serve with John Kerry
saying they did serve with John Kerry in the boat.
With George Bush, we can't find anybody who did serve with him.
- Mark Shields

What you have is two men seeking the White House;
they're both products of prominent New England families.
They both went to private boarding schools.
They both went to a prestigious university.
- Mark Shields

I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted
himself or herself with the legislator they are going to meet.
Know what committees they are on, what issues they are interested in,
all in an effort to build a bridge for communicating with them.
- Mark Shields

In the 2004 presidential election, we saw a wonderful
example of citizens making contributions.
In fact, individual giving to both the Kerry and Bush
campaigns was the highest in our nation's history.
- Mark Shields

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in
the words of my principal supporter on the committee,
who gave a ringing endorsement, which was,
There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.
- Mark Shields

Since the election, since the formation of a government,
the death in Iraq has increased.
The United States stands by, helpless to do anything about it.
That's the reality, not George Bush's revisionist history!
- Mark Shields

There's no question that Stalin broke the agreements
made at Yalta completely about elections that were
supposed to be held immediately in Poland,
and Eastern Europe was plunged into slavery as a consequence.
- Mark Shields

Self-respect is not a function of size, age, or wealth.
Breathe deep, sing loud and sweet,
"I am me, I am unique, I am magnificent."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

I truly believe that happiness is possible...
even when you're thirty-three
and have a bottom the size of two bowling balls.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason

The size of your success is measured by
the strength of your desire;
the size of your dream;
and how you handle disappointment along the way.
- Robert Kiyosaki

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food
quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
- Bryan Miller

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six.
My legs are not skinny as sticks,
and dammit, someone's got to pay.
I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself
and that my happiness depends on someone else.
I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall.
You're so shallow.
- Jewel

If cats were double the size they are now,
they'd probably be illegal.
- Doug Coupland

If a small thing has the power to make you angry,
does that not indicate something about your size?
- Sydney J. Harris

In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate,
and one size fits all.
- William Randolph Hearst

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses
possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man
at twice its natural size.
- Virginia Woolf

Americans work a long away ahead of themselves because
of the size of the place.
To make any impact at all you have to promote yourself
with live performances ages before a release.
- James Taylor

Life is too short, and I'm Italian.
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.
- Sophia Bush

I was really tired of words like 'plus size,'
'round' and 'large.' I thought,
'Come on, we're fat.'
- Kirstie Alley

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I. - Delta Burke

We are at the point where game designers have become
celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.
- John Romero

It is not the size of the dog in the fight that counts,
but the size of the fight in the dog.
- Barry McGuigan

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually
viable or viable as a woman.
- Belinda Carlisle

A lot of directors don't want the pressure of a movie
the size of Pearl Harbor.
But I love it.
I thrive on it.
- Michael Bay

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.
Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial
instinct by which you and I size people up.
- Max Beerbohm

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event,
and the paucity of its reverberation.
- Norman Mailer

The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull.
He therefore approaches his task with full humility,
and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
- Edsger Dijkstra

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where
we can drown it in a bathtub.
- Grover Norquist

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets
back down to normal size.
- Kel Mitchell

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.
- Bruce Cockburn

By increasing the size of the keyhole,
today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.
- Peter Ustinov

I overcame size with mechanics.
- Edwin Moses

It's not the size of the dreamer, it's the size of the dream.
- Josh Ryan Evans

We were impressed with the size and scope of the Persian
Gulf as we traveled to Islamabad,
Pakistan.
- Jon Porter

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed
for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size
of budget deficits among the eleven countries.
- Robert C. Solomon

We will cut programs, we will try to rein in the size of the bureaucracy.
We will bring federal pay scales that have become so
exaggerated into line with market rates.
- Eric Cantor

There is no bullet-proof vest in my size.
- Ariel Sharon

We are not intimidated by the size of the armies,
or the type of hardware the US has brought.
- Saddam Hussein

Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
- Richard Linklater

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
- Marlon Brando

First, we will focus on the privatization of small
and medium sized enterprises,
followed by the medium size industry and then we will
move on to the heavy industry.
- Ibrahim Rugova

Given Ivan's size and power, we must remain vigilant.
- Mike Rogers

When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant
size of the earth and vastness of space,
and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah.
- Cat Stevens

Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
- Lamar Alexander

Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that
citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.
- William Weld

It wasn't until late high school and early college
that I gained enough size and skill to make me welcome
on intramural basketball teams.
- Paul D. Boyer

There's all body types, but there's just one size.
- Conor Oberst

Cameron and I actually do wear the same size.
It made it very easy for the wardrobe department.
- Toni Collette

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people -
we are,
as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of
later cutting them down to size.
- Eric Hoffer

There has always been quite a strong black and white
art tradition in Australia,
with quite a large contingent of cartoonists,
given the size of the population.
- Pat Oliphant

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size.
- John B. S. Haldane

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably
end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
- Peter Steele

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